In OS X Mountain Lion i cant see any widgets when i click on the plus(+) button on the lfet bottom corner. the sceen just appears grey and blank.
all the built in widgets that were available in osx lion have now disappeared since i uprgaded.
Thanks for the help!
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a111
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion
Same symptoms here after upgrade:
1) Widgets as previously installed all present & working - except Contacts
2) Clicking the plus button shows an empty screen of available/installable widgets
3) Trashing plist files & double clicking from library folder does install widget but doesn't fix the empty screen
I'm thinking that there is buried in the OS somewhere a setting that tells Dashboard where to "see" available widgets and for some reason it ain't "seeing".
PS. I got Contacts widget back by double clicking it in Library folder and then agreeing to the security warning about Dashboard accessing my contacts.
PPS. Have just checked a "vanilla" admin account on same machine and widget screen looks OK there - so definitely a setting somewhere within the user space is wonky.
Message was edited by: Kiwi Graham
Aaah - got it.
Mission Control now uses a LaunchPad-ish interface to show available widgets when you press the + symbol (ie. what previously used to show as a horizontal panel at the bottom).
In Lion I had used "LaunchPad Control" system preference pane to remove lots of "cruft" applications from the LauchPad display.
When I reset that database (using an option in LaunchPad control) hey presto - widgets reappeared.
i couldnt find launchpad control... though reseting the lanchpad did work for me
what i did was
i had this application on my system
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40594/lion-designer/
using this i reset the launchpad to default and all my widgets appeared
Same problem here. Any other/working solutions? I never had any "launchpad control" prefs pane installed..
Well you could try clearing the launchpad database manually and see if it helps:
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ; killall Dock
WORKS!!! THANK YOU!
yeah this works for me. i had reset the launchpad database to clear the launchpad, but it broke all my widgets. i like the widgets more
I had the exact same problem. Tried deleting the com.apple.dashboard.plist, etc. but that solution wasn't working. After entering rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db ; killall Dock into the console, this finally did it.
Thank you, Kiwi! You saved the day!
Where do you place this command in console?
You place the command in, Terminal.
I just did it and it proved successful! Thanks, Kiwi Graham!
Mountain lion dashboard ( NO widgets on screen)
